VALUABLE STEP

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 November 1943, Page 2

VALUABLE STEP

IN PROGRESS OF UNITED NATIONS DECLARATION BY MOSCOW CONFERENCE. DOMINIONS CONSULTED. ' (By Telegraph—Press Association,) WELLINGTON, This Day. “The outstanding result of the Moscow conference is undoubtedly the four-Power declaration on general security, in the drafting of which New Zealand, in common with the other Dominions, has been consulted throughout, and with the terms of which the New Zealand Government is in general agreement,” said the De-puty-Prime Minister, Mr Nash, yesterday. He added that the -Conference and the several declarations which had resulted from the discussions of the Foreign Ministers of the United Kingdom, the ‘United States and the U.S.S.R., should rank in importance with the Atlantic Charter and the United Nations Declaration of January 1, 1942. “The four-Power declaration signed by Britain, the United States, the U.S.S.R., and China marks a most valuable step in the progress of the United Nations’ collaboration,” said Mr Nash. “The fact that the four major Allied Powers should reach this far-reaching understanding upon the basic principles of the.new world order, and the fact, moreover, that the machinery of, practical co-operation is to be set in motion, must be regarded as an event of profound significance. The admission of a special responsibility on the part of the four great Powers to secure disarmament, and the preparation of the groundwork for .a general international organisation based on the free participation of all freedom-loving nations are realistic steps toward securing a solidly-based peace. “The four-Power declaration constitutes a pledge that the spirit of co-op-eration which the trials and sacrifices of war have brought about will be carried over into the peace, and that the confidence and trust of allies will remain the sure foundation upon which post-war reconstruction will be built. Those who fought side by side are thus pledged, when victory has been won, to continue to stand together. for the maintenance of international peace and security. With a continuance of this spirit animating the four great Powers the problems of peace may be faced with a confidence like that with which the United Nations now regard the successful conclusion of the war.”